Originially Posted by eyagow
Posted - 07/05/2005 :  2:58:37 PM
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About 50 people showed up for the June 29th set of Stroubles Creek Focus Group Meetings, including about 20 staff and high school students from the Virginia Tech summer STARS program. The powerpoint presentation given at the meeting is available through the following link:
http://www.tmdl.bse.vt.edu/uploads/File/forum/StroublesCreekFocusGroup06-29-05.ppt (5.5MB)

while the handout from meeting can be found at this link:
http://www.tmdl.bse.vt.edu/uploads/File/forum/StroublesCreekFocusGrpAgenda_Jun29.doc (3.5MB)

Each of the 3 Focus Groups - Agriculture/Rural, Residential/Urban, and PublicWorks - worked from a series of 4 maps to identify areas or stream lengths that corresponded with identified problems from the Stroubles Creek TMDL study. This is a large file, but for those interested in seeing the maps, they are available at this link:
http://www.tmdl.bse.vt.edu/uploads/File/forum/StroublesMaps.doc (18MB)

Finally, the draft notes from each of the three Focus Groups are available at the following:
http://www.tmdl.bse.vt.edu/uploads/File/forum/AgrRuralFocusGroupNotes06-29-05.doc (40KB)
http://www.tmdl.bse.vt.edu/uploads/File/forum/ResidUrbanFocusGroupNotes06-29-05.doc (42KB)
http://www.tmdl.bse.vt.edu/uploads/File/forum/PublicWorksFocusGroupNotes06-29-05.doc (47KB)

The next meeting of the Focus Groups will be held on the evening of July 27th. Complete details will be mailed to the entire email list.